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Let’s say you’re a bird wrapping up your breeding season in the north of Scotland—where do your thoughts turn when winter beckons? the Caribbean islands, and Ecuador and Peru. In either case, they’ve got a travel history that would leave most humans’ passports in the dust. Photo by Adam Rowlands/HEMEDIA.
A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. After all, what was thought as its habitat was heavily deteriorated and converted to agriculture as the human population grew. This flock is composed of about 54 birds including nine breeding pair. Photo: Fernando Angulo Pratolongo.
Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. Make up your mind, Ringer! Thanks for visiting!
And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. This is all very unveganly, but I went for it nevertheless.
This year I watched them from the day they arrived , until two chicks successfully hatched, the northernmost breeding record for the species. On Seymour Island, my group witnessed a very human-like interaction amongst three boobies , one female and two males.
Who can forget Mike and Corey’s stories about Maria, the Giant Antpitta at Refugio Paz de Las Aves, Ecuador, or James Currie ‘s quest to see the Scaled Antpitta at Tandayapa Lodge? Then, I remembered how often 10,000 Birds writers have written about Antpittas. Patrick has had his share of sightings in Costa Rica as well.
The adults presumably have already learned that humans are not usually good news even if not named Donald Trump. I guess you cannot be too choosy while traveling, as I have learned when on trips in Ecuador and other places. A Lesser Cuckoo stayed in one of the Nanhui microforests for a few days, not being afraid of humans at all.
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